Annotated 'Harry Potter' 1st edition on auction

LONDON (AP) ? A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction.

The personal annotations from the best-selling author included comments on the process of writing and a section from an early draft of the novel. They also included a note on how the best-selling author came to create the game of Quidditch.

It "was invented in a small hotel in Manchester after a row with my then boyfriend. I had been pondering the things that hold a society together, cause it to congregate and signify its particular character and I knew I needed a sport," she wrote.

Rowling also drew illustrations in the book, including a sleeping baby Harry on a door step and an Albus Dumbledore Chocolate Frog card.

The copy will be sold Tuesday at Sotheby's London as part of an auction jointly organized with the writers' association English PEN.

The group, a charity that promotes the freedom to read and write, asked 50 acclaimed authors to "scribble second thoughts, marginalia or drawings" on a first-edition copy of one of their books.

Other participating authors included Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Seamus Heaney, Lionel Shriver and Yann Martel.

Sotheby's said Monday the funds raised will benefit English PEN.

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PFT: Bucs saw Revis injury as opportunity

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Lost in the question of whether the Seahawks face fines for future player suspensions is the reality that, based on the policy created by the NFL in 2008, they likely paid more than $60,000 for suspensions that happened in 2012.

The NFL has declined comment on the question of whether and to what extent the Seahawks have been fined for past suspensions, explaining that this information isn?t disclosed for any team.? But the league office has confirmed that the formula developed in 2008 still applies, and it?s public knowledge that three Seahawks were suspended during the 2012 season:? offensive lineman Allen Barbre, safety Winston Guy, and cornerback Brandon Browner.

Barbre came first, suspended the first four games of the season under the performance-enhancing drugs policy.? He was cut after the suspension ended in October.

Under the league?s policy, the Seahawks faced fines for the second suspension (Guy) and the third (Browner).? Based on their salaries for 2012, Guy lost $97,500 in salary during his four-week suspension.? The policy converts 25 percent of that into a fine, which equates to $24,375.

Next up was Browner, who served a four-game suspension and forfeited $109,411 in base salary.? Since Browner?s suspension was the third of the year, one third of his lost salary became a fine.? That?s $36,470.

The total of the two fines is $60,845.

This year, the Seahawks will be fined if there?s another suspension under the substance-abuse policy, the policy regarding steroids and related substances, or the personal-conduct policy, given that defensive end Bruce Irvin already will miss the first four games of the year after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

It?s unclear whether fines will make teams more careful about acquiring players who carry the red flag of a possible violations.? Former Chiefs G.M. Scott Pioli said on Tuesday?s PFT Live that the league has discussed the possibility of stripping draft picks as an alternative to fines.

That could be the best way to handle the situation.? Team?s view fines as a cost of doing business; losing draft picks impacts competitive interests, and thus are more likely to get the franchise?s attention.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/21/bucs-saw-darrelle-revis-knee-injury-as-an-opportunity/related/

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Avril Lavigne Says Wedding Planning Is 'Full-Time Job'

'Here's to Never Growing Up' singer tells MTV News about her upcoming celebration with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger.
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Expanding B&M Retail Business - Franchise? Mall kiosk?

Hey all,

I have a single retail store that's doing fairly well, and am wondering the best way to expand.

I've been thinking about additional locations. I see a few options:
1 - open new locations, which I own and manage.
2 - sell Franchises to let other people own/manage while sending me ~5% of revenue.
3 - open a mall kiosk, which I own and manage (I believe I could capture a large % of my potential revenue with much lower costs vs an actual store in the mall)

There's no reason I couldn't do all 3, but I'm curious what you guys think is the best option. Does anyone have experience with mall kiosks?

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Seven years since my days died | The Secret Life of a Manic ...

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Mentally Interesting

I have something from my husband to post but it needs editing so not yet.

It was my dad?s 7 year anniversary on Friday. We walked down the aisle to the song we played at his funeral.

He died in 2006 from alcoholic liver failure at the age of 47. I have numerous friends older than my dad at his death. I spent the day in bitter reminiscence at the disgusting way he and my family were treated as he was dying because he was an alcoholic. I have no experience but I?m willing to bet the families of cancer patients aren?t asked why they didn?t stop them and pushed roughly aside by staff and treated with the utmost disgust and disdain. Willing to bet their dying dads with heartbroken children weren?t treated as though their dying was their fault. My dad?s death was the most painful event of my life and they made it worse. My big sister Paula was there for most of it and she has far more tales to tell. I am bitter and I always will be. Even more embittered at ?mental health activists? who rant against stigma yet treat people with addictions like scum unworthy of help. Attitudes like yours helped isolate my family and contributed to my dad?s death. Cheers. There is no hierarchy of suffering and help. If you want people with schizophrenia to be treated humanely and to have access to services, same should apply for addictions and personality disorders, considering how everything is linked. No exceptions. People who overdose can get new livers. My dad couldn?t (but George Best could) and endured being told that and knowing with certainty he would die.

Robert looked after me but have felt fragile all weekend. My dad?s anniversary is always a time for reflection. The past year has been so hard. I wish he had been here. I had a drink in his honour. Even more in his honour, I stopped at that one.

So that?s me, proper blog soon.

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How bilinguals switch between languages

May 20, 2013 ? Individuals who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language, according to new research conducted at the University of Arizona.

The research, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, addresses enduring questions in bilingual studies about how bilingual speakers hear and process sound in two different languages.

"A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to how," said lead author Kalim Gonzales, a psychology doctoral student at the University of Arizona. "There are two views: One is that bilinguals have different processing modes for their two languages -- they have a mode for processing speech in one language and then a mode for processing speech in the other language. Another view is that bilinguals just adjust to speech variation by recalibrating to the unique acoustic properties of each language."

Gonzales's research supports the first view -- that bilinguals who learn two languages early in life learn two separate processing modes, or "sound systems."

The study looked at 32 Spanish-English early bilinguals, who had learned their second language before age 8. Participants were presented with a series of pseudo-words beginning with a 'pa' or a 'ba' sound and asked to identify which of the two sounds they heard.

While 'pa' and 'ba' sounds exist in both English and Spanish, how those sounds are produced and perceived in the two languages varies subtly. In the case of 'ba,' for example, English speakers typically begin to vibrate their vocal chords the moment they open their lips, while Spanish speakers begin vocal chord vibration slightly before they open their lips and produce 'pa' in a manner similar to English 'ba.' As a result of those subtle differences, English-only speakers might, in some cases, confuse the 'ba' and 'pa' sounds they hear in Spanish, explains co-author Andrew Lotto, associate professor of speech, language and hearing sciences at the University of Arizona.

"When most people think about differences between languages, they think they use different words and they have different grammars, but at their base languages use different sounds," Lotto said.

"One of the reasons it sounds different when you hear someone speaking a different language is because the actual sounds they use are different; they have a sound code that's specific to that language," he said. "One of the reasons someone might sound like they have an accent if they learn Spanish first is because their 'pa' is like an English 'ba,' so when they say a word with 'pa,' it will sound like a 'ba' to an English monolingual."

For the study, the bilingual participants were divided into two groups. One group was told they would be hearing rare words in Spanish, while the other was told they would be hearing rare words in English. Both groups heard audio recordings of variations of the same two words -- bafri and pafri -- which are not real words in either language.

Participants were then asked to identify whether the words they heard began with a 'ba' or a 'pa' sound.

Each group heard the same series of words, but for the group told they were hearing Spanish, the ends of the words were pronounced slightly differently, with the 'r' getting a Spanish pronunciation.

The findings: Participants perceived 'ba' and 'pa' sounds differently depending on whether they were told they were hearing Spanish words, with the Spanish pronunciation of 'r,' or whether they were told they were hearing English words, with the English pronunciation of 'r.'

"What this showed is that when you put people in English mode, they actually would act like English speakers, and then if you put them in Spanish mode, they would switch to acting like Spanish speakers," Lotto said. "These bilinguals, hearing the exact same 'ba's and 'pa's would label them differently depending on the context."

When the study was repeated with 32 English monolinguals, participants did not show the same shift in perception; they labeled 'ba' and 'pa' sounds the same way regardless of which language they were told they were hearing. It was that lack of an effect for monolinguals that provided the strongest evidence for two sound systems in bilinguals.

"Up until this point we haven't had a good answer to whether bilinguals actually learn two different codes -- so a 'ba-pa' English code and a 'ba-pa' Spanish code -- or whether they learn something that's sort of in the middle," Lotto said. "This is one of the first clear demonstrations that bilinguals really do have two different sounds systems and that they can switch between one language and the other and then use that sound system."

This is true primarily for those who learn two languages very young, Lotto said.

"If you learn a second language later in life, you usually have a dominant language and then you try to use that sounds system for the other language, which is why you end up having an accent," he said.

Research on bilingualism has increased in recent years as the global climate has become more intermixed, Lotto noted. These new findings challenge the idea that bilinguals always have one dominant language.

"This raises the possibility that bilinguals can perceive speech like a native speaker in both languages," said Gonzales, whose own son is growing up learning English and Chinese simultaneously.

"The predominant view of late has been that bilinguals will never be able to perceive a second language beyond what a late learner is capable of, or someone who learns a second language late in life. So even if you learn two languages simultaneously from birth, you're always going to perceive one of them like a late learner," Gonzales said. "Our findings cast doubt on that prominent view in the bilingual literature."

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92% Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience

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The enthralling man-vs.-nature parable based on the late Michael Crichton's best-selling novel hasn't aged one bit.

The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity.

I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement.

This movie doesn't just stand the test of time, it transcends it.

"Jurassic Park" remains an absolute thrill from a Spielberg in top form: Funny, scary, fast-moving and full of just-right details.

"Jurassic Park" was impressive in 1993. Twenty years later, it's flawless.

Some things have dated - Sam Jackson wouldn't be allowed to smoke in the office; everyone would have mobiles; Google Earth would have kept the island from being kept a secret - but the power of the film's pioneering CGI remain strangely undiminished.

Steven Spielberg's summer adventure is still one of the ultimate movie roller coaster rides.

Jurassic Park is a how-to guide for structuring a multi-character disaster film.

Still proves as thrilling as ever.

A classic gets even better.

Steven Spielbeg's 1993 tale of an island plagued dinosaurs running amok holds up surprisingly well in the special effects category.

The film is a classic and the chance to see it on the big screen again (or for the first time) should not be missed

Sentiment is explained by science as the family impulse that motivates so many Steven Spielberg stories is revealed to be an evolutionary imperative in this near-perfect action-adventure.

[Looks] better not only than effects-driven movies of the same period, but better, frankly, than half of what gets released nowadays.

Kids who love dinosaurs will love it. And who doesn't?

confirms both Spielberg's mastery of cinematic thrills and the comparatively empty bombast of today's summer tentpole movies, even the better ones.

Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber.

[The] 3D [conversion] provides the definitive version of this classic film. Jurassic Park has been transformed with with artistry, nuance and sophistication, and it's an absolute must-see during this brief run.

The 3D effects had me nearly jumping out of my seat. Some say Hollywood is converting too many old films to 3D. But, "Jurassic Park" was the perfect choice. There's nothing more fun than sharing a seat with a snapping dinosaur.

Spielberg treats us as he does his characters, leading us into a strange land and expecting us to make it out with all our faculties intact; it's a tall order, given the heart-stopping, bloodcurdling, limbs-numbing excitement packed into the second hour.

It is as if time has passed the movie by. "Jurassic Park" remains solid entertainment, but the awe and wonder have faded.

The thrill of seeing live dinosaurs on screen is not as acute today as it was 20 years ago admittedly, but there is still some 3D awe left in the creations that roared 65 billion years ago...

The 3D isn't pushed on the audience, but it does reveal the amount of depth that Spielberg actually put into the film 20 years ago.

While it's not the most profound of Spielberg's works or the most entertaining from a popcorn perspective, it's one of the most technically flawless movies he's ever produced.

Jurassic Park 3D is like being reunited with an old friend; an old friend that wants to eat you and maul you to death, but still. A classic is reborn in glorious IMAX with a vibrantly stunning use of 3D.

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What You Should Know About Dealing With A Personal Injury ...

Personal injury law is a difficult field to eliminate a case in. So, your attorney needs to be experienced in this industry. Discover somebody with a lot of wins in this industry, and you will discover that he has great techniques of his trade which can help you gain in your case. Go!!
Hiring a lawyer doesn?t suggest you will get cash in the following week approximately. This will commonly take a while, so attempt to be as patient as possible. Really, it can even drag on for years if you reside in a big city. Remember this and you will have a much easier time keeping your disappointment and stress and anxiety in check.
There are many details you must consider prior to you employ a personal injury attorney. First, you?ll wish to determine if you ?d like to pay based upon a per hour rate, or establish a contingency basis. Per hour rates differ by the lawyer, so see to it all details are in the contract.
Do not throw anything away that associates with your personal injury. Keep medication information and physician?s bills, for instance. Without a paper trail, you won?t be compensated.
There are times when the source of your pain is evident. If you did even more than you ?d do on a regular day, it can be uncomfortable for you later on. There is no should fret unless your discomfort is extremely extreme and/or does not subside within a few days.
Before receiving treatment, thoroughly paper all your injuries with photographs. Select papers that demonstrate how bad your injuries were and utilize them to reinforce your case. This can also make a distinction in the amount of any pain and suffering damages you receive.
You will get a good negotiation if you work doggedly on your case. If someone is to criticize for your personal injury, you can take lawsuit against them. The pointers in the article above will help you get the compensation you are entitled to. Ohio personal injury attorney
There are a lot of events that can be categorized as personal injury accidents, not the least of which are ?slip and falls? and traffic crashes. Anything that results in physical or psychological damage may be deemed a personal injury.

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HBT: Votto reaches 6 times as Reds roll over Phils

If you needed a reminder that Joey Votto is the best pure hitter in baseball, you got one this evening as the Reds defeated the Phillies 10-0. Joey Votto came to the plate six times and reached base all six times, including a two-run home run in the top of the ninth that served as the cherry on top of a delicious cupcake. Overall, Votto had two walks and four hits including the homer, a double, and two singles.

Votto is the second player to reach base six times in one game this season, joining teammate Shin-Soo Choo who accomplished the feat on April 20 against the Marlins. Prior to that, Diamondbacks second baseman Aaron Hill reached base six times last September 4 against the Giants. Neil Walker, Ben Zobrist, and Mark Reynolds also joined Hill last year.

Votto entered today?s game with the 15th-best weighted on-base average at .410, somehow a shade below his career average .413. To put his career in historical perspective, he also had a career adjusted OPS of 155, tied for the 19th-best mark in baseball history among players with at least 3,000 career plate appearances. (100 is average.) Other players at 155 include Hank Aaron, Joe DiMaggio, and Mel Ott. Not bad company.

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Chinese premier visits India to boost ties

Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, left, after he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. A woman at right is a protocol officer. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, left, after he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. A woman at right is a protocol officer. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian junior minister for external affairs, E. Ahamed, right, after he arrived in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

About two dozen members of Shiv Sena, a Hindu right-wing political party, burn an effigy of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as they demonstrate near India's Parliament, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Indian policemen detain a lone Tibetan protestor who tried to stage a protest against the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang outside the Chinese embassy, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.(AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

NEW DELHI (AP) ? Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.

China says Premier Li Keqiang's choice of India for his first trip abroad since taking office in March shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi.

"We think very highly of this gesture because it is our view that high-level political exchanges between our two countries are an important aspect and vehicle for our expanded cooperation," said India's external affairs ministry spokesman, Syed Akbaruddin.

Jasjit Singh, a defense analyst and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in New Delhi, said last month's border standoff was unlikely to overshadow Li's three-day visit, the first stop of a foreign tour that also includes Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany.

Singh said Indian and Chinese leaders are likely to review border talks that have failed to produce a breakthrough despite 15 rounds of discussions over the past 10 years. The two sides also will probably discuss working together in Afghanistan after next year's U.S. pullout and cooperation with Southeast Asian countries, he said.

But tensions run high between the two nations. China already sees itself as Asia's great power, while India hopes its increasing economic and military might ? though still far below its neighbor's ? will eventually put it in the same league.

While China has worked to shore up relationships with Nepal and Sri Lanka in India's traditional South Asian sphere of influence, India has been venturing into partnerships with Southeast Asian nations.

Other irritants remain in the bilateral relationship. China is a longtime ally and weapons supplier to Pakistan, India's bitter rival. Also, the presence in India of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile are a source of tension. China accuses the Dalai Lama of wanting to split Tibet off from the rest of China, but he says he seeks more autonomy for Tibetans, not independence.

Unresolved border issues between the two nations have flared as well.

In last month's incident, India said Chinese troops crossed the countries' de facto border on April 15 and pitched camp in the Depsang valley in the Ladakh region of eastern Kashmir. New Delhi responded with diplomatic protests and then moved its soldiers just 300 meters (yards) from the Chinese position.

The two sides negotiated a peaceful end to the standoff by withdrawing troops to their original positions in the Ladakh area.

Gautam Bambawale, a senior external affairs ministry official, said Saturday that India and China are negotiating a Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, but declined to give details. Indian media reports said the agreement proposes a freezing of troop levels in the disputed border region as the two countries make efforts to settle the issue.

Bambawale also said Indian and Chinese officials recently held talks in Beijing on the future of Afghanistan. China, India and Russia have discussed the matter trilaterally with the idea of giving full support to Afghanistan's government as it makes the transition following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2014.

Li was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later Sunday and attend a dinner hosted by Singh.

Delegation-level talks between the two sides are scheduled for Monday. Li is to attend a business summit in Mumbai, India's financial capital, among other activities.

The border spat last month prompted the Indian opposition and media to pressure the government to take on China and call off Li's visit. The government, however, chose to go ahead with the trip, highlighting its policy of trying to widen areas of cooperation with China while attempting to resolve key differences.

China has become India's biggest trading partner, with two-way trade jumping from $5 billion in 2002 to nearly $75 billion in 2011, although that figure declined to $61.5 billion last year because of the global economic downturn. Trade remains heavily skewed in China's favor, another source of concern for India.

India and China have had chilly relations since they fought a brief but bloody border war in 1962.

India says China is occupying 38,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) of its territory in the Aksai Chin plateau in the western Himalayas, while China claims around 90,000 square kilometers (35,000 square miles) in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Dorjee Tseten, director of Students for a Free Tibet, said Sunday that New Delhi police had declined permission for Tibetans to hold a demonstration against Li's visit.

"Tibetan activists are currently on the run evading imminent police arrest," he said in a statement, complaining of a heavy police presence in a New Delhi area where a large number of Tibetans-in-exile live.

Police overpowered and detained a Tibetan man as he tried to burn the Chinese flag near China's embassy in the Indian capital.

Police, however, allowed about two dozen members of Shiv Sena, a Hindu right-wing political party, to demonstrate near India's Parliament, where they burned an effigy of the Chinese premier.

"Go back, go back," chanted the protesters, who also carried placards urging the Indian government to respond toughly to China's alleged border incursion. The powerful regional party held power in Mumbai from 1995 to 2000.

Associated Press

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France's Hollande signs gay marriage law

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings.

France's official journal announced on Saturday the bill had become law after the Constitutional Council gave it the go-ahead on Friday.

The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has been for months hotly contested by many conservatives in France, where allowing gay marriage is one of the biggest social reforms since abolition of the death penalty in 1981.

Opponents have staged huge and often violent demonstrations against the bill and have called yet another protest on May 26. The leader of opposition to gay marriage, a political activist and humorist who goes under the name of Frigide Barjot, has said the protest would draw millions into the streets.

Montpellier mayor Helene Mandroux, who is due to celebrate France's first gay marriage in the southern city on May 29, said the law marked a major social advance.

"Love has won out over hate," she said, while voicing concerns the first gay wedding could attract violent protests.

France, a predominantly Catholic country, follows 13 others including Canada, Denmark, Sweden and most recently Uruguay and New Zealand in allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed. In the United States, Washington D.C. and 12 states have legalized same-sex marriage.

Unlike former president Francois Mitterrand's abolition of the death penalty, which most French people opposed at the time, polls showed more than half the country backed gay marriage.

Nonetheless, with Hollande's popularity ratings at record lows a year into office, the law has proved costly for the president with critics saying it has distracted his attention from reviving the recession-hit economy.

After lawmakers adopted the bill in late April, opponents had sought to scupper it with a last-ditch appeal to the Constitutional Council.

(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; editing by Mark John)

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WW2 Vets: 'There's No Such Thing As a Good War'

Every week, it seems, we hear about an even more tragic kind of military death?that of veterans who take their own lives, most often when they?re back at home, seemingly safe and sound. It is, of course, an even deeper loss because unlike most combat-related fatalities, these deaths seem to be much more preventable. If only we?d seen the signs. If only we?d stopped him or her before it was too late.

Data released by the Veterans Administration in February 2013 puts the number of U.S. military vets lost every day to suicide at a staggering 22 veterans. And as we learn more about what?s affecting the men and women coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, it?s becoming clear that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), through explosions and other concussive events, may be strongly linked to vets taking their own lives. This week, researchers at the National Center for Veterans Studies, in Salt Lake City, reported in the journal JAMA Psychiatry on a link they found between the number of TBIs and depression and thoughts of suicide.

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These findings are just the most recent piece, though, in a troubling puzzle that stretches back decades and probably centuries. Until recently, neither the public nor medical professionals really understood the tremendous psychological and emotional impact of war on those who serve in the military. ?We have all these soldiers coming back with TBI, and we now know what that is, but in World War II it was called ?shell shock? or ?battle fatigue,? and it's like you just had to get over it,? says Dale Maharidge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War (Public Affairs/Perseus). Maharidge?s book tells the story of his father, Steve Maharidge, who served in World War II as a Marine in Love Company. While a good father in many ways, Steve came home from Japan prone to sudden, rageful outbursts that traumatized his family.

A specific incident would haunt Steve Maharidge much of his life: Maharidge writes that his father and the 22nd Marines landed on Okinawa, Japan, with the first wave: On May 30, 1945, near the village of Naha, one of his company tossed a grenade into an open tomb where Japanese soldiers were suspected of hiding. The tomb was an ammo dump. The sympathetic detonation killed the grenade thrower, Pfc. Herman Walter Mulligan, and the blast wave gave everyone nearby, including Steve, concussive brain injury. That explosion rolled through the years, haunting Steve for decades. ?Mulligan was like a ghost I grew up with,? Maharidge writes.

Demons didn?t just torture Maharidge?s father, though. In researching the book, Maharidge talked to dozens of his dad?s fellow Marines, most of whom had barely spoken about their service in Japan?even to their own families?in the many decades following the war. ?You have the myth of the ?good war?; I really feel it?s a myth,? says Maharidge. ?None of the guys I talked to called it a good war. They don?t use that language. We mythologize it. They came home to a hero?s welcome, they were embraced, they re-entered society in the great years in middle part of the last century. That mythology is dangerous, and today we like to do that, too, just as much. We have to look at the reality of war?what it means, what it does.?

Maharidge says he was particularly struck by how conservative about war many of the men in his dad?s company were when he spoke to them. ?One man said, ?We?re always at war, we?re an aggressive nation,? ? remembers Maharidge. Another man, who is politically conservative, told the author, ?If we thought about the survivors we would think twice about going to war.???Everyone I talked to for the book was anti-war,? notes Maharidge. ?These guys know what war is like. They don?t want to see more. One guy I saw two weeks ago reiterated to me how his grandson wanted to join the military after 9/11 and he told him not to go, said it?s not worth it. It?s surprising how anti-war these guys are and it was not a liberal or conservative thing.? And what would cause men in their 80s and 90s to make such strong statements, particularly about something they experienced nearly 70 years ago? ?It?s the nightmares, which recur as they get older?the horror became almost cinematic,? recounts Maharidge. ?A number of them told me, ?It never leaves you; you never get over it.? ?

There?s little reason to think today?s soldiers are any different in the trauma they experience. But there is more hope, in that we are beginning to appreciate the impact combat has on those who serve, and we?re getting somewhat better at figuring out how to mitigate that impact. Says Maharidge: ?The positive thing for today?s soldiers and kids, is that the men [in my dad?s company] who dealt with it the best are the ones who talked about it the most.? Simply put, Maharidge found that, ?the more you talk about it, the less it bothers you. You take the demon and expose it to light and it withers,? he explains. ?It?s the same for any victims of trauma today. If you talk about it with your family it makes it less harmful for you.?

The soldiers who dealt with the trauma of war the best were the ones who talked about it the most.

While opening up can help relieve depression, sadness, anxiety and feelings of isolation, it won?t resolve the damage that can occur with traumatic brain injury. ?The experts I talked to said that PTSD and TBI, which is physical damage to the brain, go hand in hand, they?re not separate,? Maharidge says. ?In my dad?s case, he probably did have PTSD and he had TBI. He would remember parts of the war and recall them in great, horrible detail in fragments. When he would scream and explode when us kids spilled water, that was the brain injury?that inappropriate emotional response.? These are experiences kids today are having too, just as Maharidge did decades ago. He wishes now that he?d been able to respond in a better way to his father?s explosive moments. ?There?s no treatment for TBI, that?s the sad thing,? he says, ?But I would recommend that [kids] bite their lip. I would yell back at my father and we?d have these huge fights. I would like to think now that I could let him rage and walk away, because you?re fighting with the brain injury. That?s not your dad or your mom.?

Reacting calmly and walking away from an angry outburst takes tremendous patience, of course, and it may be useful?once everyone?s calmed down?to gently try to get a veteran to open up. ?There were moments when my dad would talk. I realize now that I could have asked him questions,? says Maharidge. ?Don?t be afraid to talk to your parents, or to a vet. You can see the war-damaged person and try to be sympathetic.? In fact, that may be the single best thing any individual can do: Ask questions, when it seems appropriate, and listen. ?You may have a parent or uncle or aunt who was in the Gulf War who has issues,? Maharidge suggests. ?In our family circles there are veterans everywhere. Just talking to these veterans means a lot to them?The soldiers I talked to have a message for not just today?s soldiers but also the children of today?s soldiers. I grew up with a father who had TBI from the war; we didn?t know it was war-related. These old guys have something to say not just to today?s soldiers, but also to their kids.?

Do you think there needs to be more awareness of psychological and emotional impact of war on soldiers? What do you think about the link between TBI and suicide??

Related Stories on TakePart:

? Are PTSD Drugs Killing Veterans?

? Op-Ed: What?s Really Causing Most Traumatic Brain Injuries

? For America's Bravest, the Mission Continues on Veterans Day

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Lorie A. Parch is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in health and lifestyle topics.?Takepart.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ww2-vets-theres-no-thing-good-war-170712128.html

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Dow, S&P end at records as indexes score fourth week of gains

By Leah Schnurr

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week of gains in a row as encouraging economic data prompted investors to pick up shares of growth companies.

The Dow and the S&P 500 finished at fresh record highs, driven by gains in energy and industrial shares. The indexes have pushed to a series of never-before-seen levels as part of the rally that has lifted equities more than 16 percent for the year so far.

In a sign of how far the market has come, the S&P 500 is also about 1,000 points above the low hit in March 2009 in the wake of the credit crisis and recession. Shares picked up strength late in the day on Friday, with the S&P 500 rising 1 percent not long before the closing bell.

"It's hard to hold this market down," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial in Westport, Connecticut.

Data showed Americans felt better about their economic and financial prospects in early May, with consumer sentiment at its highest in nearly six years, while a gauge of future economic activity rose in April to a near five-year high.

"If you believe the economy is going to gradually get better and that global growth will improve, the parts of the market that have not benefited so far, like cyclicals, will probably be the next group to outperform," Sheldon said.

Boeing shares led the S&P 500's industrial sector index higher with a 2.4 percent advance to $98.92, its highest since October 2007. The S&P industrial index rose 1.4 percent.

The S&P energy sector index gained 0.8 percent, with Exxon Mobil up 1.2 percent at $91.76.

The rate of growth in the U.S. economy has been expected to slow in the second quarter as tighter fiscal policy starts to bite. But recent improvement, including in the labor market and retail sales, has suggested the recovery remains resilient.

As slow as it is, "we are still recovering," said Doreen Mogavero, CEO of Mogavero, Lee & Co in New York. "The U.S. (market), for all its woes, is still the best place to be at this moment."

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 121.18 points, or 0.80 percent, to close at a record 15,354.40. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 15.65 points, or 0.95 percent, to end at a record 1,666.12. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 33.72 points, or 0.97 percent, to finish at 3,498.97 - its highest close since October 2000.

Earlier in the session, the Dow touched an all-time intraday high at 15,357.40, while the S&P 500 rose to a record intraday high at 1,667.38.

For the week, the Dow advanced 1.6 percent, while the S&P 500 climbed 2 percent and the Nasdaq rose 1.8 percent.

For the year so far, the Dow has climbed 17.2 percent, while the S&P 500 has gained 16.8 percent and the Nasdaq has advanced 15.9 percent.

JPMorgan raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 1,715 from 1,580, implying a gain of just under 3.5 percent for the index for the rest of the year.

"We realize investors are apprehensive about making fresh money purchases, but we see the risk/reward as particularly attractive in Technology, Healthcare, and Financials," said the client note from JPMorgan's U.S. equity strategist Thomas Lee.

General Motors Co shot up 3.2 percent to $33.42 after CLSA raised its rating on the automaker's stock to "buy" from "underperform.

JCPenney shares lost 4.2 percent to $18.01 after the retailer reported another steep quarterly loss on weak sales and heavy clearance deals, and Chief Executive Myron Ullman cautioned he needs time to fix the company's problems.

Tableau Software surged in its first day of trading as investors bet the rising interest in big data will drive the data analysis software maker's growth. Tableau surged 63.7 percent to $50.75.

S&P Dow Jones Indices said after the close on Thursday that S&P MidCap 400 component Kansas City Southern will replace Dean Foods Co in the S&P 500. Kansas City Southern shares gained 0.8 percent to $117.16, while Dean Foods rose 1.8 percent to $20.95.

Aruba Networks Inc plunged 25.6 percent to $13.10 after the network equipment maker released fourth-quarter results well below Wall Street's expectations, hurt by rising competition from Cisco Systems Inc .

Volume was roughly 6.31 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, not far off the year-to-date average daily closing volume of 6.34 billion.

Advancers outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by a ratio of about 21 to 8. On the Nasdaq, 17 stocks rose for every eight that fell.

(Additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Jan Paschal)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dow-p-end-records-stocks-score-fourth-week-204820167.html

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Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?

By Alexei Oreskovic

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere - including to the crowded bathrooms.

Google Glass, a cross between a mobile computer and eyeglasses that can both record video and surf the Internet, is now available to a select few but is already among the year's most buzz-worthy new gadgets. The device has geeks all aflutter but is unnerving everyone from lawmakers to casino operators worried about the potential for hitherto unimagined privacy and policy violations.

"I had a friend and we're sitting at dinner and about 30 minutes into it she said, 'You know those things freak me out,'" said Allen Firstenberg, a technology consultant at the Google developers conference. He has been wearing Glass for about a week but offered to take them off for the comfort of his dinner companion.

On another occasion, Firstenberg admitted to walking into a bathroom wearing his Glass without realizing it.

"Most of the day I totally forget it's there," he said.

Many believe wearable computers represent the next big shift in technology, just as smartphones evolved from personal computers. Apple and Samsung are said to be working on other forms of wearable technology.

The test version of Glass looks like a clear pair of eyeglasses with a hefty slab along the right side. Since it began shipping to a couple thousand carefully selected early adopters who paid about $1,500 for the device, it has inspired a bit of ridicule - from a parody on "Saturday Night Live" to a popular blog poking fun at its users.

Other industry experts take a more serious tack, pointing out the potential for misuse because Glass can record video far less conspicuously than a handheld device.

Glass also has won many fans. Google and some early users maintain that privacy fears are overblown. As with traditional video cameras, a tiny light blinks on to let people know when it is recording.

Several Glass wearers at the developers conference said they whip the device off in inappropriate situations, such as in gym locker rooms or work meetings. Michael Evans, a Web developer from Washington, D.C., attending the Google conference, said he removed his Glass when he went to the movies, even though the device would be ill-suited for recording a feature-length film.

"I just figured I don't want to be the first guy kicked out of the movies," he said.

NO GLASS ALLOWED

A stamp-sized electronic screen mounted on the left side of a pair of eyeglass frames, Glass can record video, access email, provide turn-by-turn driving directions and retrieve info from the Web by connecting wirelessly to a user's cell phone.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt dismissed concerns about the brave new world of wearable computers during a talk at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in April.

"Criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it," he said.

Schmidt acknowledged that there are certain places where Glass will not be appropriate but that he believed new rules of social etiquette will coalesce over time. Firstenberg said it will take time for all sides to get comfortable with the new technology.

"I don't think we should go into the conversation assuming that Glass is bad," he said.

Indeed, previous technology innovations such as mobile phones and wireless headsets that initially raised concerns are now subject to tacit rules of etiquette, such as not talking loudly on the bus and turning a ringer off in a meeting.

Still, some have decided to leave nothing to chance.

Casino operator Caesar's Entertainment recently announced that Glass is not permitted while gambling or when in showrooms, though guests can wear it in other areas. In March, Seattle's Five Point Cafe made headlines for becoming the first bar to ban Glass. "Respect our customers privacy as we'd expect them to respect yours," says a statement on the caf?'s website.

The California Highway Patrol says there is no law that explicitly forbids a driver from wearing Glass while driving in the state. But according to Officer Elon Steers, if a driver appears to be distracted as a result of the device, an officer can take enforcement action.

PRIVACY TRACK RECORD

Lawmakers are beginning to consider Glass.

On Thursday, eight members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to Google Chief Executive Larry Page, asking for details about how Glass handles various privacy issues, including whether it is capable of facial recognition.

According to Google, there are no facial recognition technologies built into the device and it has no plans to do so "unless we have strong privacy protections in place."

During one of this week's conference sessions - an open discussion about Glass - members of the Glass team answered a question about privacy by noting that social implications and etiquette have been a big area of focus during the development of the product, which is still a test version.

Some of the Glass-phobia may stem from Google's own track record on privacy. In 2010, Google revealed that its fleet of Street View cars, which criss-cross the globe taking panoramic photos for the Google Maps product, also had captured personal information such as emails and web pages that were transmitted over unencrypted home wireless networks.

"The fact that it's Google offering the service, as opposed to say Brookstone, raises privacy issues," said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a non-profit privacy advocacy group, citing Google's history and its scale in Internet advertising.

Rotenberg says his main concern centers on the stream of data collected by the devices - everything from audio and video to a user's location data - going to Google's data centers.

Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor who specializes in privacy and technology, said Glass is not very different from other technologies available today, whether it is a smartphone or "spy" pens that secretly record audio. But Glass is on people's faces, so it feels different.

"The face is a really intimate place and to have a piece of technology on it is unsettling," Calo said. "Much as a drone is unsettling because we have some ideas of war."

For all the hand-wringing, some early adopters are sold.

Ryan Warner, who recently graduated from college and who has developed a recipe app for Glass with Evans, said he was surprised by the reaction he got when he went to a bar.

"I was like, ?I don't know if I should have it on or not.' I was kind of in that phase," he said, "and the bouncer was like, ?Oh, my god, is that Google Glass?' He was excited."

(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic, with additional reporting by Susan Zeidler in Los Angeles and Aaron Pressman in Boston; Editing by Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/googles-wearable-glass-gadget-cool-creepy-140848988.html

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Oh, baby! Kimmel spoofs 'Bachelor' with toddlers

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Randee Dawn TODAY contributor

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While "Jimmy Kimmel Live" isn't necessarily known for its sweet approach to babies or children (Kimmel routinely exhorts parents to prank their kids and capture it on camera for yuks), on Thursday night he managed to blend a spoof of "The Bachelor/The Bachelorette" with a clutch of toddler actors that was, well, downright adorable.

In a spoof of the long-running ABC reality series "The Bachelor," Kimmel lent his voice to a "preview" of a "new" series, "The Baby Bachelor," in which Wesley, a very young man just looking for a play date has to choose between a collection of similarly youthful ladies. And they're just as much of a handful as their grown-up counterparts, as demonstrated by the lovely blonde who just can't stop crying. Wesley not only gives her a hug but a peck on the cheek, to no avail.

Women!

Then of course there's always one: 35-month-old Jesse is a "stay-at-home daughter" who is "looking for a sugar daddy."

Who will accept Wesley's offer of a dinosaur toy? Check out the video for all of the cute overload!

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/oh-baby-jimmy-kimmel-spoofs-bachelor-very-young-contestants-1C9965350

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I absolutely abhor exercise... tips? - Health, Fitness, and Sports

Tsiiki Toucan Joined: Dec 02, 2007 Age: 24 Posts: 271	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 12:26 pm?? ?Post subject: I absolutely abhor exercise... tips? I'm not too far gone yet weight wise, but I'm heading there. Just calculated my body fat and at 35% which isn't good, and BMI is borderline overweight. So I know I *should* get fit, I just can't stand it!!!!! I can't stand being out of breath and gasping for air (happens very very fast even after working out for months, actually think I have exercise induced asthma which would be useful to get checked out) I can't stand the pain when your muscles are struggling or the weakness from being so tired But worse of all, I absolutely cannot handle the muscle soreness afterwords. This has been an issue all my life, and since you guys are fellow aspies, and more prone to hypersensitiveness I was wondering if there was any tips to get around this stuff. I'm a lazy brat so forcing myself out there is going to be REALLY REALLY HARD. And likely will give up. :X I would force myself every semester while in college to take 1-2 gym courses just to get some sort of physical activity in. I have taken karate, fitness walking, fencing, archery, rock climbing, on my own I've also done a lot of badminton (work), jump rope, running, weight lifting, rowing machine, tredmill, etc. I'm a fairly good swimmer too.... laser tag is a huge workout too I've discovered. I'm competitive beyond belief and that is the sole thing that gets me through any of it, running? Find someone faster and chase after, must win! Unfortunately I can't handle "going slow." Doing x activity for y minutes... always feel a need to go faster faster faster, see how fast I can get this done, or must lift this weight 10x so lift as fast as possible, even though I know that you're supposed to do slow, I just can't stand the activity so much I want it done asap. So I'm at a loss. I have done all those activities, and while some are fun, the drawbacks of them make me unable to force myself to continue. There really are few things in this world I hate more than exercise... (oh yeah, to make things worse I have serious RLS pain happen after I run (happens on its own as well but rarely anymore, but always when I run)) What is a good way for me to get even a little more fit? Small things like parking father away and walking in I can do (though often forget), but what else? If it is an activity it's likely going to have to be competitive... I want to learn martial arts, but the countless reps were driving me insane in karate, is there one that is more bout oriented and can actually work to "defeat" someone and "win" more often? Fencing had a lot more bouts than my karate class ever did, so considering that. How do I keep myself to keep going and doing it? And for the love of god, how the hell do I stop feeling so shitty!?!!! I've taken advil/motrin, I've tried hot baths, cold showers, stretching before, stretching after, stretching day after, etc and can't seem to get rid of it or tolerate it (last week I had moved a 100lb and 50lb bed and frame myself 3x that day, the next 6 days were hell. The day after was so bad I went home early from work and went straight to sleep to sleep through it x.x)
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Kurgan I'm always right Joined: Apr 07, 2012 Age: 24 Posts: 1679 Location: Norway	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 1:45 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: I absolutely abhor exercise... tips? Tsiiki wrote: I can't stand being out of breath and gasping for air (happens very very fast even after working out for months, actually think I have exercise induced asthma which would be useful to get checked out) There are many ways to excercise. I have asthma and I also struggle with my hand-to-eye coordination because of my Asperger's syndrome. It didn't stop me from getting to a 300 lb bench press in just a year. Quote: I can't stand the pain when your muscles are struggling or the weakness from being so tired But worse of all, I absolutely cannot handle the muscle soreness afterwords. Your first exercises are going to be that way. If the problem persists, it means that you're not eating enough protein. Contrary to popular belief spred by envious pseudointellectuals, bread and butter won't give you nearly enough protein to actually get any results. Quote: I'm a lazy brat so forcing myself out there is going to be REALLY REALLY HARD. And likely will give up. :X I would force myself every semester while in college to take 1-2 gym courses just to get some sort of physical activity in. Get a structured exercise routine. F*cking around with randomly selected exercises on randomly selected days with a randomly selected level of intensity will get you nowhere. Quote: And for the love of god, how the hell do I stop feeling so shitty!?!!! Protein shakes are a good start.
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sacrip Phoenix Joined: Oct 18, 2008 Age: 39 Posts: 664	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:03 pm?? ?Post subject: With running, a walk/run routine is more efficient than steady jogging. Walk a ways, sprint from point to point, then walk again. It won't take long before you find that you're sprinting faster and walking further. With exercise in general, what stopped me for a long time was fear. Fear of trying to do something, like 20 good push-ups, and failing. You almost have to forgive yourself first before you start any program, because you have to be your own cheerleader, not your own critic. Remember, exercise, no matter how short or easy, is always worth it. Don't tell yourself that if you don't spend at least 2 hours non stop at the gym it isn't worth going. Even if you just do 10 push-ups and call it a day, do them. _________________ Everything would be better if you were in charge.
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Tsiiki Toucan Joined: Dec 02, 2007 Age: 24 Posts: 271	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:45 pm?? ?Post subject: The protein tip is good, I would do semester long batches so know that it isn't just the starting sorenesses Like the semester I took fencing I would do fencing 2-3x a week and another 2-3x a week of running, weight lifting, and rowing machine... was in pain that entire semester and just hated life even more. Structure may help a little, but I'm notorious for giving up things and not sticking to them... only reason managed the previous years was because grades were dependant on going to class :X And yeah I do "run/walk"... because walking is too boring and running too tiring, so it's sprint, then walk until can breath again, then sprint, etc... XD And yes, I agree with the mental thing, and yes drink a lot of water actually and no to other person, I don't eat well either... planning on trying to sneak a little more health in, but these are both mutually difficult things :X Also, curious, thought came while reading one of your articles about hardwired to hate it: Asthma means you aren't getting enough oxygen to your cells basically, right? I assumed that it could be because I'm borderline anemic, but took iron suppliments (w/ vitamin c to absorb better) in attempt to stave off RLS pain (failed attempt, but tried nevertheless). I didn't find it helped my perceived death by gasping fish syndrome, but if it was asthma and not getting enough oxygen... could lack of oxygen while working out lead to increased muscle soreness?
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neilson_wheels Toucan Joined: Mar 12, 2013 Posts: 269 Location: London, UK	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:48 pm?? ?Post subject: A balanced diet can improve your mental state. Cycling is better than running in my opinion, less impact on the leg joints. With martial arts finding the right class or teacher can make a massive difference. Most Karate styles are fairly rigid in structure. Different arts will incorporate sparing into the classes earlier, you just need to try some out. The best class I attended was Tai Chi, due to the teacher, half the time spent in contact exercises. All styles do require time and effort to study the set forms though, you can expect to improve without the fundamentals.
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Tsiiki Toucan Joined: Dec 02, 2007 Age: 24 Posts: 271	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:55 pm?? ?Post subject: Oh yeah, I completely forgot The reason I think I have the asthma thing is because (and I know this is a clear sign of trying too hard) I will get to the point where my hearing gets duller until can't hear at all and...will continue until I lose all color vision ^^;;; This has been happening on/off since middle school, and wasn't nearly as lazy then as I am now (and better diet and fitness/bodyfat too was actually underweight when started college, oh how things have gone down hill) Just frustrating when people (appear, obviously not since the state I'm in) are worse off than you and can keep going and you're about to pass out XD
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DonkeyBuster Phoenix Joined: May 12, 2009 Age: 55 Posts: 1298 Location: New Mexico, USA	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:57 pm?? ?Post subject: Tsiiki wrote: And yes, I agree with the mental thing, and yes drink a lot of water actually and no to other person, I don't eat well either... planning on trying to sneak a little more health in, but these are both mutually difficult things :X OK, so addressing the impatience aspect is part of your exercise program. Impatience management. I can say I know something about that! Quote: Also, curious, thought came while reading one of your articles about hardwired to hate it: Asthma means you aren't getting enough oxygen to your cells basically, right? I assumed that it could be because I'm borderline anemic, but took iron suppliments (w/ vitamin c to absorb better) in attempt to stave off RLS pain (failed attempt, but tried nevertheless). I didn't find it helped my perceived death by gasping fish syndrome, but if it was asthma and not getting enough oxygen... could lack of oxygen while working out lead to increased muscle soreness? Pretty sure it does. My memory is vague here, but when the body goes into anaerobic mode during exercise, muscle tissue gets broken down & lactic acid & other toxins increase, causing muscle soreness. So because of your reduced lung capacity, you may go over the oxygen threshold much sooner than average. You might also have some dietary inflammatory stuff happening...are you celiac & not watching what you eat very carefully? Or other dietary autoimmune issues?
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neilson_wheels Toucan Joined: Mar 12, 2013 Posts: 269 Location: London, UK	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 3:17 pm?? ?Post subject: Yes try Aikido if you have a class local, try anything until you find the right thing. Karate is great if you are going to devote your life to it. Have you spoken to a doctor about the asthma and anemia? Any blood tests?
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Tsiiki Toucan Joined: Dec 02, 2007 Age: 24 Posts: 271	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 3:42 pm?? ?Post subject: Anemia has come up w/ me and the doctors which is why I tried iron supplements, asthma has not... *mumbles* needa find new doctor, last one tried sending me to a mental hospital /grudge (depression, badly, which is reason I care more about exercising for weight rather than just dieting, because it's *supposed* to be good for you) Quote: OK, so addressing the impatience aspect is part of your exercise program. Impatience management. I can say I know something about that! Like what? And I just eat a lot of crappy foods... mutual love for each other and all, not allergic to anything though intense distaste to many or not eat, often too tired/lazy to eat after work, so its often an (unhealthy) snack or nothing Sounds like the quickest "fix" to being able to tolerate this stuff is seeing dr... if I can simply breathe may be able to tolerate the soreness *tries convincing herself things really will get better*
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DonkeyBuster Phoenix Joined: May 12, 2009 Age: 55 Posts: 1298 Location: New Mexico, USA	Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 3:53 pm?? ?Post subject: Tsiiki wrote: Quote: OK, so addressing the impatience aspect is part of your exercise program. Impatience management. I can say I know something about that! Like what? I meditate--there are various kinds: walking, standing, sitting & lying down--& I really feel the repeated letting go of the thought & returning to the breath is basically a patience practice. Not to mention all the marvelous health benefits they keep finding. I could give you some basic instruction if you like or answer questions you might have. Find a healthy thing & do it. For me a protein shake or smoothie would work. Quick, easy, & can be a real powerhouse of nutrition. Also, assume you're not getting enough sunlight & get your Vit. D levels tested. Strong evidence linking low levels w/depression, etc. Quote: Sounds like the quickest "fix" to being able to tolerate this stuff is seeing dr... if I can simply breathe may be able to tolerate the soreness *tries convincing herself things really will get better* I see this as another try at quick when slow & steady wins the race for you. It's about avoiding pain, making the exercise pleasurable, fun. For you, I think the old adage "No pain, no gain" is a sinker. Assume pain is telling you that you got it WRONG for you. That adage is for people who have a higher pain tolerance or stronger endorphin releases or something. Not for you, I'm thinking. Or me. If it's fun, I'll do it. If it's not fun, I won't. Simple as that.
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neilson_wheels Toucan Joined: Mar 12, 2013 Posts: 269 Location: London, UK
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